Scott Derrickson

Sinister 2012

As most of you know I have a healthy aversion to horror films. I am the kind of person who get scared easily, and it takes me 3-4 days to recover after a horror film. I have been hearing a lot about Sinister for the past 2 years, but could not gather courage to watch it. Finally I watched it this weekend; I must say it was a good decision.
Sinister begins with a chilling scene of 4 people being hanged ...

The Exorcism of Emily Rose 2005

Not long after her possession and subsequent death people speculated: what if Anneliese Michel, the victim of possession featured in 2005’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose, saw The Exorcist and simply mimicked possession, or coupled it with her existing troubles? After all, the film had swept Germany into a frenzy as it had America, creating a wave of hysteria. Could the deeply devout Anneliese Michel have seen the film and incorporated possession to her mental illness? A simple sweep of ...

The Day the Earth Stood Still 2008

In Barbara Kingsolver's novel Animal Dreams, a character named Codi is talking with Loyd, a Native American she dated as a teenager, about the responsibilities of taking care of the earth:
"Really, it's like the spirits have made a deal with us."
"And what is the deal?" I asked.
"We're on our own. The spirits have been good enough to let us live here and use the utilities, and we're saying: We know how nice you're being. We appreciate the rain, we appreciate ...

Doctor Strange

Strange comic book fans, rejoice! Your hero has finally made it into the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse and with that comes the potential of reboots aplenty. The shenanigans we saw in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movies and the X-Men series may now lie ahead for the Main Marvel Line. Future implications aside, however, Doctor Strange tells a standard tale with just enough cleverness to keep the viewer interested. It is, in superhero parlance, an “origin story” and, as with all episodes ...